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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 174 2 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 92 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 87 1 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 84 0 Browse Search
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 78 16 Browse Search
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 71 11 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 51 9 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 46 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 34 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
that mountain and of the main river, marched Shields, with his 8,000 picked troops. Neither had as in his impotent flight in May. Why did not Shields, upon coming over from the Piedmont to Front Will it turn again eastward to the mountain? Shields shall see, he reaches Conrad's store. There ove and below had been burned. Fremont and Shields would now, therefore, apply the old strategy,mself too soon of the means of access to him. Shields, then, shall be first attended to, on the sou, and thy time is short—too short, alas! for Shields, for mortal man; for lo! yonder, one hath clounts the heights, and there, sure enough, is Shields's army advancing up the meadows from Lewiston The answer was an affirmative nod. Then General Shields will not be blind to the importance of hio finish with Shields, peradventure to finish Shields, by ten o'clock. Five hours should be enough nt á nous; so it seems had Jackson decreed of Shields's men: They belong to us. This the whole dis[34 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stonewall Jackson. (search)
hall closely pursue his rear with 18,000, and Shields shall advance abreast, between him and the mohere over the Masanuttin, upon the advance of Shields—burns bridge after bridge, Mount Jackson bridat evening Fremont sat down before Ewell, and Shields, perceiving that he must seek Jackson still fove and below had been burned. Fremont and Shields would now, therefore, apply the old strategy,already decided. Shall Jackson, then, hold Shields at arms' length, and strike the larger prey, w bridge, and a line of retreat threatened by Shields's unbroken force. Again, Shields defeated, hShields defeated, had but one difficult and narrow line of retreat, between the flood and the mountain, and might be pn the north side, with his artillery, so that Shields, though still separated from his friends by tshelter of their guns. And second, supposing Shields dealt with satisfactorily, then it might be dmself too soon of the means of access to him. Shields, then, shall be first attended to, on the sou[14 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stonewall Jackson. (search)
ing to the ranks, cannoneers harness; and ere Shields can brush away the flimsy obstacles between hounts the heights, and there, sure enough, is Shields's army advancing up the meadows from Lewiston an iron storm across the river, which lashes Shields back to his covert. Jackson trusted Providdo it, sir. I should tear him to pieces! And Shields did not do it, because he could not! The tg: I am going to fight. Yes, we shall engage Shields this morning at sunrise. Now, I wish you to official report. He proposed to finish with Shields, peradventure to finish Shields, by ten o'clont á nous; so it seems had Jackson decreed of Shields's men: They belong to us. This the whole dis. I have described to you the position which Shields had assumed at Lewiston, with his line stretcht of the Confederate army was thrown against Shields he was crushed (though not captured) in the sck had come and gone, and the first attack on Shields, made with forces wholly inadequate, had met [9 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Shenandoah Valley in 1864, by George E. Pond—Campaigns of the civil war, XI. (search)
rear guard under Ramseur, near Winchester, but the Federals did not push on. General Grant expected that Early would be recalled to Richmond, and he had therefore ordered that the corps (Sixth and Nineteenth) he had sent up, should, if possible, anticipate him. They were now withdrawn, and Hunter's forces, under Crook, were left to hold the Valley. Early quickly discovered this, and promptly advancing from Strasburg, on July 24th, fell upon Crook, on the battlefield of Kernstown, where Shields had repulsed Jackson in 1862. Early's victory was thorough, Crook's forces being routed with heavy loss, and in two days Early once more held the Potomac. Mr. Pond does not give Crook's strength in this fight, but as the returns for August show some 22,000 men in the Department of West Virginia, it is certain that Crook outnumbered Early, who, according to Mr. Pond, had in all about 15,000 under his command. This victory caused an immediate change in the Federal programme. The troops